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Thursday, April 24, 2014

WatchGuard Partners Lastline to Launch APT Blocker

WatchGuardTechnologies, a leader in integrated security platforms, today announced its
new Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) solution, WatchGuard APT Blocker.
Delivering real-time threat visibility and protection in minutes, not hours,
APT Blocker identifies and submits suspicious files to a cloud-based,
next-generation sandbox, using the industry’s most sophisticated
full-system-emulation environment for detecting APTs and zero day malware. The
WatchGuard solution integrates with the company’s visibility tool, WatchGuardDimension, providing an instant, single view of advanced threats, along with
other top trends, applications and threats covered by WatchGuard’s security
technologies.

APT
Blocker comes pre-installed on all WatchGuard Unified Threat Management (UTM)
and Next-Gen Firewall (NGFW) appliances with a free 30-day trial.
WatchGuard has extended their proprietary proxy-based architecture to detect
suspicious files and send them for full-system emulation and analysis in the
cloud. By adding an additional layer to the deep-packet-inspection engine,
WatchGuard’s highly respected detection capabilities now extend from the
universe of known threats (malware for which there is a known pattern) into the
unknown.

“Nearly
88 percent of today’s malware can morph to avoid detection by signature-based
AntiVirus solutions*,” said Corey Nachreiner, director of security strategy and
research for WatchGuard Technologies. “That means today’s AntiVirus solutions remain
necessary for catching known threats but alone, they’re no longer sufficient.
APT Blocker’s full-system emulation approach to sandboxing provides simple,
rapid protection, which doesn’t rely on a traditional, signature-based approach
to detect and stop advanced malware; in a solution that scales to inspect
millions of objects at any given time.”

WatchGuard’s
UTM and NGFW security platforms were purpose-built to simplify the process of
adding newly-emerging technologies such as APT management, meaning customers
can deploy this sophisticated technology in a couple of clicks. Continuing the strategy of working with
best-of-breed technology partners, WatchGuard has teamed with industry veteran
and APT heavyweight, Lastline, for cloud-based, full-system-emulation
inspection capabilities. Lastline’s founding team has been doing advanced
malware research for more than 10 years and their commercial products have
significant credibility in protecting businesses against today’s unknown APT
threats.

“WatchGuard
is recognised as a leader in the network security space,” said Brian Laing,
vice president of products for Lastline. “We are thrilled to strike up this
partnership to combat advanced cyber threats. With nearly a million red
WatchGuard appliances installed worldwide and our unique, cloud-based
sandboxing capabilities for detecting advanced malware, companies worldwide now
instantly will have access to the industry’s most sophisticated technologies to
stop evasive malware designed to bypass traditional security products.”

Historically,
APT targets were exclusively governments and large enterprises whose critical
infrastructures were stymied by the likes of Stuxnet and Duqu. But today,
advanced threats have evolved to target much smaller organisations and corporations
to similarly devastating effect. Scott Robertson, Vice President of Asia
Pacific for WatchGuard Technologies adds, “Since today’s APT targets are not
anticipating these threats, they are not sufficiently protected. Often relying
almost entirely on AntiVirus and digital-signature solutions, these networks
are almost completely vulnerable.” (Click here
to view an infographic on the evolution of APT.)

APT
Blocker is now available and comes pre-installed with a free 30-day trial with
the launch of version 11.9 of WatchGuard’s Fireware security platform, which
includes other best-of-breed services such as: AntiVirus, AntiSpam, Application
Control and DLP. Fireware also comes standard with WatchGuard Dimension, the
company’s award-winning, real-time visibility solution.

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